Cannonball Read 11

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Are you feeling lucky?

Lucky Suit by Lauren Blakely

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Lucky Suit is a popcorn romance novella, so it’s light and cute and enjoyable.   Kristen is a scientist who researches renewable energy (I think) and is intellectual and likes stars and math and poker.  She has one of those awesome grandmas who wears skinny jeans in her seventies and fixes up old cars. And Grandma is trying to set up someone with Kristen, which has not turned out all that well so far.  So Kristen turns to online dating, which Grandma is not about. Cameron is in the chocolate business.  The business side, that is. Lulu, his partner, makes […]

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5/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:34 |

“I like stories where women save themselves.”

The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

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Gaiman smushes the stories of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty together in this gorgeously illustrated novella.  The setting of the book is sometime after Snow White is awakened from her coffin and at the 100 year mark after Sleeping Beauty’s curse set in. But the stakes are raised when the sleeping sickness that has fallen on the princess and her kingdom is spreading out further and further as the curse lingers.  Several of the dwarves bring this to their queen, and conveniently she is looking for a reason to get out of her upcoming wedding. Snow sets off, armored up, […]

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4/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:26 |

Angry Space Jellyfish

Binti by nnedi Okorafor

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I hated the first thing I got from a list of must-read sci-fi/fantasy series; I was not optimistic about the second. Thankfully, this one turned out well. The only problem? Binti is actually a novella, and way too short. I somehow ended up with a copy of the first novella, not the series of three bound together. The premise reminds me in some ways of Black Panther. Binti is a Shuri-like math prodigy from an isolated culture who sticks largely to old ways of living and belief, while at the same time “obsessed with innovation and technology”. Binti is so […]

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4/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

Yelling at Terrible Men

Mrs. Martin’s Incomperable Adventure by Courtney Milan

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Author’s Note: Sometimes I write villains who are subtle and nuanced. This is not one of those times. The Terrible Nephew is terrible, and terrible things happen to him. Sometime villains really are bad and wrong, and sometimes, we want them to suffer a lot of consequences. I received this novella as an ARC and this is an honest review. Mrs. Bertrice Martin is a wealthy widow of 73 who is bored and depressed. Miss Violetta Beauchamps is a poor spinster of 69 who has just been sacked. Mr. Robert Cappish is a Terrible Man who is the nominal reason […]

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3/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

“I’ve Been Expelled From Heaven, I Think I was In Heaven”

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

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I’m not sure if I have been in a book slump or of my mind hasn’t been able to focus due to all the things going on at work at the beginning of the year, or if it was inability to find a book that could hold my attention.  It was probably a hybrid of the two, since I’m still in a very picky mood about books, but count on Seanan McGuire, a true and tried favorite, to get me out of my slump. I’m rather late getting to this series of novellas about children/teenagers at a boarding school for children that have returned […]

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2/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

An excellent bridging story between a finished trilogy and a series to come

Diamond Fire by Ilona Andrews

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4.5 stars Spoiler warning! This novella takes place after the events of Wildfire and this review may spoil things for any reader who has not finished the original Hidden Legacy trilogy. Proceed at your own risk. Nevada Baylor is marrying Connor Rogan, and that means a huge society wedding with countless guests, including many of Rogan’s family members from all over the world. After the bride runs off numerous wedding planners, her sisters Catalina and Arabella decide to take over the wedding planning duties. It turns out that dealing with her older sister’s increasingly erratic demands is child’s play compared to some of the other […]

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12/24/2018 's CBR10 Review No:105 |

Free on Kindle! And I liked it, too!

And the Sea Called Her Name by Joe Hart

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This is a great novella from Joe Hart about two people who start starry eyed, like any other couple, but slowly grow apart. Set on the blustery Maine coast, Hart describes Jason and Delphi in a quaint home on the seashore, with the cold, dark ocean just beyond their doorstep. We see events through Jason’s eyes. A reluctant fisherman following in the steps of his father, Jason wants nothing more than to provide for his wife, Delphi, and build a family. But as Delphi becomes despondent and her behavior stranger and more unexplainable, Jason is hard pressed for any answer […]

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8/28/2018 's CBR10 Review No:10 |

I love you, Murderbot. But I would never actually tell you that, because of the intense awkwardness that would cause you

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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4.5 stars From Goodreads: In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid – a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot”. Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough […]

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7/6/2018 's CBR10 Review No:51 |


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